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+/*
+ * reserved comment block
+ * DO NOT REMOVE OR ALTER!
+ */
+/*
+ * Copyright 1999-2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serialize;
+
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment;
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Interface for a DOM serializer implementation.
+ *
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:Scott_Boag/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com">Scott Boag</a>
+ * @author <a href="mailto:arkin@intalio.com">Assaf Arkin</a>
+ */
+public interface DOMSerializer
+{
+
+
+    /**
+     * Serialized the DOM element. Throws an exception only if
+     * an I/O exception occured while serializing.
+     *
+     * @param elem The element to serialize
+     * @throws IOException An I/O exception occured while
+     *   serializing
+     */
+    public void serialize( Element elem )
+        throws IOException;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Serializes the DOM document. Throws an exception only if
+     * an I/O exception occured while serializing.
+     *
+     * @param doc The document to serialize
+     * @throws IOException An I/O exception occured while
+     *   serializing
+     */
+    public void serialize( Document doc )
+        throws IOException;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Serializes the DOM document fragment. Throws an exception
+     * only if an I/O exception occured while serializing.
+     *
+     * @param frag The document fragment to serialize
+     * @throws IOException An I/O exception occured while
+     *   serializing
+     */
+    public void serialize( DocumentFragment frag )
+        throws IOException;
+
+
+}